Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb -s] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At which Lupescu collapses in fits of hysterical laughter , and crawls over to Ceauşescu and embraces his knees and kisses his feet , saying , ‘ Thank you , Comrade , for a joke like that , I could get ten dollars ! ’ |
| 2 | But it 's the way the hills rise so sharply from the plain between Hereford and Worcester that exaggerates their impact — and provides sensational views . |
| 3 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 4 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 5 | He leaves the window where he was standing , walks across to Eva and places his hand on her arm . |
| 6 | The Volunteer Guides have now become an important feature of the Royal Museum of Scotland and says their aim is to encourage satisfied customers to return again and again . |
| 7 | ‘ But if it was a political act then it affects Scotland and excites my interest . ’ |
| 8 | Weaver and tapestry worked Ingrid Parker lives in Devon but sells her work mainly in America and has recently completed a tapestry for a church in Austria . |
| 9 | He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect . |
| 10 | It is Gina who meets you at La Sabina and arranges your cab to your holiday home or your hire car . |
| 11 | While the computer systems may reside in a single cabinet ( plus some outboard boxes for disk drives ) , within the AS/400 are terminal support units based on fast general-purpose microprocessors , disk and tape controllers using comparable technology , an intelligent memory subsystem , one or more applications processing engines and a DBMS that owes its power and economy to hardware and microcode . |
| 12 | Lord Zetland who lives near Ripon and lists his recreations as horse-racing and lawn tennis but not mountaineering was in the team for the second year . |
| 13 | In trouble after a smuggling affray , early in the nineteenth century , John Kemp escapes to Jamaica and works his way to prosperity as a plantation owner . |
| 14 | The carnival parade sets off from Nun 's Close car park at 10am on Monday and winds its way through the town . |
| 15 | Because we were on a voucher system from the DHSS that pays your rent we had no choice about where we were sent . |
| 16 | He describes the features of the four main systems that are currently in use in the UK and illustrates their application with reference to examples drawn from retail analysis and store location , market research , credit rating and target marketing . |
| 17 | Chapter 9 discusses the existing set of constraints on agriculture in the uplands of France and the UK — National and Regional Parks , and protected sites in France ; National Parks , Section 43 Moorland Maps , and SSSIs in the UK and assesses their effectiveness in preventing habitat destruction . |
| 18 | A disciple is one who hears the call of Jesus and joins his company . |
| 19 | It can be networked with other workstations including Silicon Graphics Inc Irises and IBM Corp RS/6000 via Ethernet and has what Division claims to be the first purpose-built virtual reality software environment , dVS . |
| 20 | Briefly in Oxford Labour party ( ‘ awful people ’ ) he 's now a life member in Bishop Auckland and retains his membership of a bevy of South Durham workmen 's clubs . |
| 21 | Mark turns to Babur and shrugs his shoulders . |
| 22 | And it 's significant that a strand of films showing how a group of individuals from different social backgrounds could be brought together by war and learn to forget their divisions , generally regarded as the supreme achievement of wartime ‘ realism ’ , was anticipated in Powell-Pressburger's One of our Aircraft is Missing ( 1941 ) , in which a bomber crew bales out over Holland and works its way home with help from the Dutch resistance . |
| 23 | Judy lives in Manchester and hires her friend 's 17-year-old daughter who 's studying for her A levels . |
| 24 | Simon is an 18 year old student at Winchester and keeps his hair in a neat , easy to care for style . |
| 25 | She takes one look at Gisela and has her fringe cut too . |
| 26 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 27 | Bob Hodson phones the Wilton sales office on a Thursday and places his order for the following week . |
| 28 | no put 's his paws on Keith and wags his tail and says , hit me . |
| 29 | The path starts at Hellesdon north-west of Norwich and makes its way towards Drayton , Attlebridge , Lenwade and Blackwater to arrive at Thelmthorpe . |
| 30 | Painted terracotta decorations for architecture are found in all areas of Greece in the archaic period and later ; figure-work too , but that is far commoner in the west than in the rest of Greece and reaches its acme in Etruria . |